Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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